FIDE Presidential Board Chess News
Hello everybody!
The 1st quarter FIDE Presidential Board meeting in Bursa came to its end and I am glad to share with you some news about what happened there.
In less than 2 hours the first round of the World's Men Team Chess Championship will start and we will be able to enjoy its games. According to the decision of the Presidential Board, the next men's team world chess championship might take place at the same time with the women's team championship 2011 in Antalya, Turkey in December 2011.
I am pleased to announce below the new holders of FIDE women's titles that have been approved during the 1st quarter PB meeting:
Woman Grand Master (WGM):
Szczepkowska-Horowska, Karina POL Savina, Anastasia RUS
Woman International Master (WIM):
Videnova, Iva (BUL) Havlikova Krystyna CZE (by reaching needed rating) Tjolsen, Katrine NOR (by reaching needed rating) Airapetian, Tatevik RUS Malgina, Tatiana RUS Vysochina, Nadezhda UKR Brunello, Marina (by reaching needed rating)
Congratulations to those ladies!
Among the many important decisions taken during the 1st Quarter Presidential Board in Bursa I would like to highlight three of them:
- The Women's World Blitz Championship will take place in Moscow, Russia on September 16-18, 2010. The full regulations will follow soon. Mark your calendars as this will be a super event you don't want to miss! Unless you don't want a chance to become the 2010 Women's World Blitz Champion or at least watch beautiful blitz games being played there.
- The Women's World Club Cup (together with World Club Cup) is planned to take place in UAE from July 11-20, 2010 (the dates are provisional yet).
Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Champion
Labels: calendar, FIDE, titles
2010 Women's Chess Tournaments Calendar
Hello dear lady-tournament players!
Today FIDE announced the final schedule of the Women's FIDE Grand-Prix Series for 2009/10. There is one such Grand-Prix tournament left in 2009 and there will be 4 more Grand-Prix in 2010. Together with these tournaments I started a special table for open, closed, FIDE and all types of tournaments in 2010. The same table for the year 2009 you can found here.
There are quite a few great tournaments to keep us women chess players busy, practically all year long. Women also have the advantage to be allowed to also play in men's tournaments, which can be of a very high level and can be useful to get grandmaster practice.
Below are just the main starts for 2010 women-only tournaments, the dates of which I found on-line. If you know the dates of other chess events of if you are organizing a women's chess tournament, please feel free to let me know by entering a comment in this post and I will include your event in this calendar.
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
Russian Club Cup, Dagomys, Russia, April 1 - 12, 2010
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
World Junior and Girls U-20 World Chess Championship, Chotowa Czarna, Poland, August 2 – August 17, 2010
SEPTEMBER
11th World University Chess Championship, Zurich, Switzerland, September 5 – September 12, 2010
Chess Olympiad, Khanty-Mansiisk, Russia, September 20 – October 4, 2010
OCTOBER
European Club Cup for Women, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, October 16 – October 24, 2010
NOVEMBER
16th Asian Games, Guangzhou, China, November 12 –November 27, 2010
DECEMBER Women’s World Chess Championship, Turkey, December 2 – December 25, 2010.
Now to all of you I wish a year 2010 full of chess successes, on the chess board and in your lives!
Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Champion
Labels: 2010, calendar, chess tournaments
Women's Tournaments Calendar 2009
 Dear Organizers of Women’s Chess Events!
I’m starting a special list with all the women’s tournaments that take place throughout the year. If your tournament is not listed here, please send me an email or post a comment in this blog.
I’m making this list in order to make the women’s chess tournaments calendar as clear as possible and to avoid possible clashes of events.
Women’s chess tournaments calendar 2009:
(tournaments shown in italic have already been finished)
Moscow Open, women’s tournament
Moscow, Russia 31 Jan – 08 Feb, 2009
FIDE Women Grand-Prix Series
Istanbul, Turkey, 5-Mar - 20-Mar, 2009
The winner of the FIDE Women Grand-Prix Series 2009/2010 will have a chance to challenge the women’s world chess champion 2010 in a match that is scheduled for 2011.
European Individual Women's Chess Championship 2009
St. Petersburg, Russia 7- 21-Mar, 2009
Women's Russian Team Cup
Dagomys, Russia, Apr 2 – 11, 2009
Women GM Chess Tournament, Mediterranean Flowers
Rijeka, Croatia, 07 - 15 March, 2009
41st international women's tournament of 8th March
Belgrad, Serbia 03-11 March, 2009
Puerto Rico Chess Federation Woman Open Classificatory, 29-31 May, 2009 Zone 3.5 Zonal, Open and Women, Beijing, China, April 17-28, 2009
Zonal 2.4 Absolute and Women, Río de Janeiro, Brazil 8- 18 Jun-2009
Zonal 2.5 Absolute and Women, Asuncion, Paraguay 15-Jun-2009
WIM-Tournament, Stockholm, Sweden, 17-25 June, 2009
Zone 3.4 Zonal, Open and Women, Tashkent, Uzbekistan 16- 27-Jun-2009
Puerto Rico Women's Championship, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 10-27 July 2009
Zone 2.3 Zonal, San Salvador, 10-17 July, 2009
African Women's Individual Chess Championship, Libya, 20-31 July, 2009
Zone 3.3 Zonal, Open and Women, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam 22-30-Jul-2009 Canadian Women Chess Championship, Guelph, Zonal 2.2, July 30 - Aug 3, 2009 Zone 3.2 Zonal, New Delhi, India, 09 - 18 Aug, 2009
"Baltic Queen" GM Tournament for Women, Saint-Petersburg, August 11 - 20, 2009
Annual Lyudmila Rudenko Chess Cup, Saint-Petesburg, August 25 - September 3, 2009 Continental Women Championship 2009, Cali, Colombia 1 - 7-Sep, 2009
World Women's Team Championship 2009, Ningbo, China 1 - 12-Sep-2009 Women GM Chess Tournament Krk - Mediterranean Golden Island Baska (CRO), 9-18 Sep, 2009
European Club Cup for Women 2009, Struga, Lake Ochid, FYROM 3-11, Oct, 2009 2nd FIDE Women Grand-Prix Tournament, Nanjing, China Sep 27 - Oct 9, 2009 2009 U.S. Women's Championship, Saint Louis, USA 2-12, October, 2009
European Team Championship, Novi-Sad/Serbia, 21-30 October, 2009
3rd Asian Indoor Games Halongbay, Quang Ninh, Vietnam 30-Oct - 8-Nov, 2009 Senior World Chess Championship, Italy, Oct 26 - Nov 11, 2009 London Chess Classic Women's Invitational, London, England, December 7 - 15, 2009 (10 player, 9 round, all play all with WIM norms available. Tournament organiser: Lawrence Cooper)
European Rapid Women's Chess Championship 2009 open
European Blitz Women's Championship 2009 open
World Rapid Women's Chess Championship 2009 open
World Blitz Women's Championship 2009 open Labels: calendar, chess tournaments
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